As before, these choices were limited to English -
language, theatrically - distributed,
narrative feature films.
That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic
language of Lynne Ramsay's
film adaptation (the Scottish director's third
feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of
narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.